2 Responses to “saponify”

  1. Fred

    Sapo is spanish for toad.

    It is too bad this word does not mean “turning people into toads”.

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  2. John Schoffstall

    You’d use it every day if you were a soap manufacturer!

    It’s a very cool word for horror writers.

    Forensic pathologists and archaeologists might not use it every day, but they have occasion to use it reasonably often. Human flesh will saponify under certain conditions, turning into adipocere, another strange, neat word.

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